Against The World: Chapter 1: Initiation
All the characters in RWBY belong to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. (RIP)
I only own my OC's.
The sound of an engine was the best sound they could hear at the time. Everyone, with a blonde boy stumbling ahead of everyone else, everyone was walking off the ship to see their first glimpse of Beacon.
"Wow! Never ever I thought I'd come here in a million years," A young man smiled with his shiny white teeth glistening in the sunlight.
"Yeah, we've come a long way, but...we're finally here." A young woman replied as she too walked out the Bullhead and stood by the young man.
"Time for a new start," the young man as he took in the sight of Beacon Academy's structure.
"Yes, indeed...Mecha." The woman replied as she put her hand on her hip, touching her ripped up gray jacket.
Mecha and the woman began walking towards the school.
"Yeah, y'know, Aileen? I thought we would be stuck at Haven Academy...But we got lucky. Really lucky. Professor Ozpin recognized us and we were able to get in. Thank goodness." Mecha smiled as he turned around and backpedaled to face Aileen.
"After many days of paperwork on top of chopping Grimm?" Aileen asked. She stared into Mecha's brown eyes with her own set of brown.
"Yep. Ugh...I just want to relax here. I've been looking forward to this for a long time." Mecha smiled as he stretched his back out.
"Why don't we get settled first before we think of any relaxing?" Aileen suggested while stretching her own body out.
"Yes, I know, and we will." Mecha responded as he and his companion continued walking towards the giant school.
Meanwhile, just a bit farther ahead...
"Hmmm...so this is what Beacon looks like?" another young man, who was actually a faunus, was examining the exterior and the vastness of Beacon Academy and its architecture.
"I guess so. I mean, I've gotten a few quick looks." Another Faunus that looked rather colorful due to her species, replied to the young man's statement.
"Right, I mean you were born in Vale, after all." The male Faunus replied back. "Then you moved to Mistral."
"Yes...well, that topic, I still wish it was under better circumstances." The colorful Faunus reluctantly replied with a somber look before her face turned fiery with her moronic smile, "But then, if that happened, then I wouldn't have enjoyed beating your ass every now and then!"
"Oh shut up. You know I'm not that good at hand to hand." The young man responded.
"Different story whenever you went completely berserk on me, Ryuoji!" The winged Faunus argued as her arms were thrown around, showing off her somewhat slim and muscular arms.
"Ugh...Aria, whenever I do that, I feel so bad afterwards." Ryouji responded as he put his hand on his forehead, sighing.
"Pfffttt...liar...I think you just wanted to get into your inner monster whenever you have the chance. You're just as reckless as I am when it comes to going all out." Aria smirked as she leaned forward.
"Haha, anyway, we should be on our way-"
"Hey, you." A tough, bulky boy pointed to Aria.
"Who are you?" Aria turned around to meet the tough boy with an annoyed look on her face.
"That doesn't matter. What does is why they let Faunus come into the school." The kid taunted Aria. Ryouji and Aria were both getting pissed off and even Mecha and Aileen took notice from a distance.
"I think you better think twice about saying further before that mouth gets you into really deep shit. And you should probably ask yourself, why come here?" Ryuoji stepped protectively in front of Aria.
"I've got no beef with you. Although, in a minute..." The kid shoved Ryouji out of the way. "Anyway, I'm here for her."
In the distance...
"Woah, is there a fight going on?" Mecha pointed over to where Aria and Ryouji were.
"I don't know, but it's escalating very quickly...," Aileen observed as Ryuoji bravely pushed himself in between the kid and Aria once more.
"We should check it out." Mecha recommended as he and Aileen rushed over.
"-The fuck is wrong with you, man?" Ryouji shouted once more.
"I've got this." Aria smiled. Ryouji then stopped, smiled, and said:
"Do it."
"Hehe..." Aria smiled as Ryouji stepped out of the way.
Aria looked at the kid...
And kicked him right in the jaw, launching him 20 feet in the air. The kick was so fast that Ryouji, Mecha, and Aileen couldn't see it.
"Hmph." Aria grunted as she didn't look at the kid.
"Nice kick." Ryouji complimented Aria while looking at the bully with a emotionless stare. No remorse, no pity.
"He's a nobody. No one's going to miss him." Aria coldly stated as she looked on.
"Ouch. C'mon, let's go." Ryouji smiled as she motioned towards Aria.
"Yeah. Better not get too much attention around here." Aria replied.
"Alright, let's go." Ryouji and Aria both walked away, leaving Mecha and Aileen stunned.
"We should probably avoid them..." Mecha muttered. He looked at Ryouji and Aria with interested looks as he watched the two huntsmen in training walk away. "Hmm...I wonder..." Mecha muttered. "Have we met them before?"
"Huh? You say something?" Aileen asked her companion.
"Yeah..have we seen them before?" Mecha pointed to Aria and Ryouji. "I feel like we've seen them at Haven Academy..." Mecha tried to clog his memory.
"Yeah...although I think they were in a different class than us. I don't think I ever had them in any of mine..." Aileen put her hand on her chin.
"We might meet them later...it's possible." Mecha said as he motioned with his hand to move along.
After a long speech Professor Ozpin, the head of the school, gave to the first years...Later on...hanging out in a room with all the first years...
"Aah, this is nice." Mecha relaxed, like he said earlier, as he leaned back on a chair with his hands behind his head.
"I prefer the sleeping bag," Aileen got out her sleeping bag, which was red and orange in color.
"I'll be sleeping in the sleeping bag, Aileen. I just can't sleep. I'm too happy. If you wanna lay in the bag go ahead." Mecha motioned with his hand to the sleeping bag.
"Don't wanna sleep with me, sugar?" She teased him.
"No, none of that here." Mecha chuckled as he waved his finger. Aileen laughed at that. "Ugh...you're a pain sometimes." Mecha said as he shook his head at Aileen, in a somewhat jokingly manner.
"In a good way, right?" Aileen asked him in response.
"Depending on the situation." Mecha responded.
"What kind are we talking about, huh?" Aileen let off a sexy wink.
"*Sigh* Good god how do I live with you?" Mecha sighed as he smiled at Aileen and rolled his eyes and chuckled.
"Oh, you're going there are you?" Aileen got up and started to punch Mecha in a playful way.
"Maaaayyybeee...," Mecha shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah yeah..." Aileen kept playfully punching Mecha. Then he and Aileen heard a rich, aristocratic-sounding girl scream out loud in fury.
"What the-?!" Mecha and Aileen both said at the same time. It turned out to be a girl with white hair pulled into a pony tail, ice blue eyes, and a scar on her left eye. She seemed to be scolding someones.
"Who's that?!" Mecha shouted.
"-Don't you realize that some of us are trying to sleep?!" The white haired girl scolded the red head and blonde from earlier.
"OH NOT YOU AGAIN!" The white haired girl and blonde shouted at each other.
"Hey! Some of us are trying to sleep here!" Ryuoji's call went unheeded sadly.
"Shh, right! People are trying to sleep!" The red head said as she put her arms between the blonde and the white haired girl.
"Thank you!" Ryuoji shouted off.
"Hey! Whoever just shouted, no one asked for your opinion!" The white haired girl screamed.
"Party pooper!" Ryuoji shouted back at her.
"Why do you need to be a bitch all the time?!" Mecha shouted in the girls' direction.
The whole room went silent and stared at Mecha as if he had a death wish. Everyone, including Mecha, knew who the white girl was, but Mecha didn't care.
"What. Did. You. Say?" The white haired girl narrowed her eyes at Mecha.
"You heard me. You're being a complete jerk to her..." Mecha pointed to the red-head, "..And him!" Mecha then directed his finger towards Ryouji.
"Why you...," The white haired girl was seething.
"Just calm down, fall asleep and we'll be fine." Mecha said calmly.
"Jeez, Weiss. Could you not make such a scene?" The red head pleaded of Weiss.
"Ugh...Fine." Weiss huffed as she crossed her arms in a fit.
"Thank you, finally." Ryuoji said out of relief and exhaustion.
"No problem!" Mecha called out to Ryouji. Ryuoji then went to sleep with Aria with some peace.
"Whew. All that's over." Aileen whispered.
"Yeah. Let's get some sleep for tomorrow." Mecha recommended as he got into his own sleeping bag.
"Good idea." Aileen agreed as she slept within her own.
The next day...As everyone woke up and began to get to their bearings for the initiation, some conversations were brewing in the locker room.
"So how do you think this is going to play out?" Ryuoji asked Aria.
"Dunno. As long as we get on the same team I'll be fine." Aria smiled as she looked in her locker.
"That's assuming everything goes well," Ryuoji remarked as he examined his own locker.
"You got everything in there?" Aria asked her close friend.
"Yep...everything to be ready for what's to come," Ryuoji said staring at his cybernetic samurai armor and his Eagle Talon Gauntlets, AKA Raptor Claws.
"What about your Orochi Fang Sword?" Aria added to her Question.
"I've got it right here..." Ryouji grabbed the sword from his locker and held it in his hand. He placed his other hand on the blade and felt it's metallic touch.
He then felt a weird chill as he saw blood on his hands and sword, and saw a burning city around him for a split second.
Ryuoji squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head to try shut the memory away from him.
"Woah, dude? You OK?" Aria put her hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah...I'm fine, Aria. Don't worry about me," Ryuoji shook his head.
"You sure? You looked a little pained." Aria wanted a little more confirmation.
"I said I am fine. I was just distracted that's all," Ryuoji denied.
"Okay, if you say so." Aria sighed, since she knew that Ryouji was lying. But she shrugged it off and didn't press him on it any farther.
"Your boots? They in good shape?" Ryouji began to grab his equipment from his locker.
"Yeah," Aria quickly inspected them before putting them on.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Ryouji pumped his shoulders, showing off the dorsal spikes on his arms.
Meanwhile...
"How was your night?" Mecha asked Aileen, who was next to him.
"Without the nightmares this time. It's been good for once," Aileen replied.
"You still have those?" Mecha questioned.
"Not as bad, but they still persist like a goddamned Nevermore." Aileen said opening her locker.
"Well that's good...somewhat..." Mecha slightly smiled. Aileen sighed while she continued to equip herself. Aileen pulled out her weapon; Armageddon. By pressing a button on the handle, the weapon blade began to fold and so did the handle to the point where it would fit in the pocket of her jeans and she could pull it out at any time.
"You have all your swords?" Aileen asked Mecha as she put her little baton like handle in her pocket.
"Yeah." Mecha replied.
"Alright." Aileen said back.
"All students head to the Cliff to begin initiation. Repeat..." the loudspeaker giving off Glynda Goodwitch's voice said.
"We should get going." Mecha said. They passed through the hall with many other incoming students including the blonde knight that threw up yesterday. As we got towards the cliff, Mecha got a little nervous.
"Hey...isn't that.." Mecha looked at a red head looked closely. The red head with a hood seemed to be too young to be here, so he leaned over and asked,
"Hey, you?" Mecha called to the girl.
"Huh?" The red-head lifted the hood off of her, revealing her cute face and her silver eyes, "Are you calling me?"
"Hey, uh..." Mecha felt a little weird asking this. "Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" Mecha asked carefully, hopefully not trying to provoke her.
"Well...yes and no...," The red-head stammered.
"Uh...sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up." Mecha replied as he looked away.
"No no no...it's okay. Just a long story to say the least," Red replied trying to reassure him.
"Okay. Thanks." Mecha smiled as she turned back to face Ruby.
"Hey, Ruby? Who you talkin' to?" A busty blonde young woman turned around to see Mecha talk to Ruby.
"Oh, Yang. I don't know this guy's name, but he was just asking a question." Ruby responded.
"What kind?" Yang raised her eyebrow at Mecha.
"Just asking if she was too young to be attending Beacon. That's all." Mecha responded to Yang before Ruby could.
"Nah...she's not. She's got bee's knees I tell ya!" Yang said giving Ruby the noogie.
"Hey, Yang! Stop it!" Ruby chuckled slightly as she pushed Yang off.
Professor Ozpin cleared his throat to get their attention as he stepped in front of everyone.
"For years, you have trained to become warriors. And today your abilities will be tested in the Emerald Forest." Professor Ozpin explained briefly to the students.
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates. Today." Glynda Goodwitch, Ozpin's second-in-command at Beacon said to them.
"What? Aw..." Ruby whimpered a little bit.
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to pair up with someone with whom you can work well." Ozpin continued to explain.
"Uh..!" Ruby whimpered once again.
"-That being said, the person who you make eye contact with will be your partner for the next four years." Ozpin finished.
"WHAT?!" Ruby shrieked.
"See? I told you!" A girl with orange hair and green eyes said to a boy standing next to her wearing a green dress-like outfit.
"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path...or you will die." Ozpin replied.
"Well THAT'S a real confidence builder!" Ryouji slightly joked around.
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene. You will find and abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one, and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade it appropriately. Are there any questions?" Ozpin finished his explanation.
"Yeah, uh...sir-" The blonde knight was rudely interrupted by Ozpin.
"Good! Now, into positions." Ozpin said.
"Um...sir, he's trying to ask you something." Ryuoji pointed out to Ozpin that the blonde knight was trying to ask him.
"I'm aware." Ozpin said to Ryouji.
"So, um, what's the landing strategy for this?" Jaune asked the Headmaster nervously.
"You'll be providing your own landing strategy." Ozpin answered.
The white haired girl was launched into the air.
Then the bigger knight with the brown hair and bird-like symbol on his chestplate launched next.
"We're coming up, Aileen." Mecha said to Aileen, who was next to her.
"Yeah, I know. Let's just hope that our eyes will be onto each other when we meet again." Aileen replied back.
"Ugh...that sounds so wrong." Mecha said.
"Oh shut up." Aileen chuckled. Then Mecha was launched. Not for long, Aileen was shortly launched into the air.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mecha and Aileen both shouted. Aria was launched after Yang was and she unfurled her now-revealed macaw wings that popped out from the back of her shirt and flew this time.
"What the-?!" Ruby stuttered at this reveal. "I knew she was a faunus...but...wings?!" Ruby looked at Aria. Ryouji was now launched. Then Ruby.
"So...uh...what exactly is this landing strateg-"
"-yyyyyyyyyyy?!" The blonde knight was launched into the air. That was everyone.
Initiation had Begun.